124 TESTACEOUS MOLLUSCA. 



Obtusely subcordate, thick, tumid, glossy, smooth, pale fulvous, 

 extremely variable in its markings, often with obscure dusky rays : 

 depressions sunken the posterior oval -subcordate, the anterior indis- 

 tinctly sublanceolate and painted with bluish grey linear markings : 

 beaks much incurved : inside white, generally with a pinkish tinge 

 beneath the umbones : a flattened posterior callosity beneath the 

 hinge : two of the teeth bifid in each valve. — Variety. ( E. t. 266. 

 f. 5.) The umbones with a somewhat star-like white spot or 

 with some white rays — Variety. (V. Nebulosa, Chem. f. 359, 

 360, ].—Lam. 63.*-^. t. 7. /. 52.— Gmel. 3279.- D. p. 182.) 

 Covered with obsolete angular dusky markings, some of the larger 

 of which form themselves into three or four radiating rows. 1 . . lj. 

 — Indian Seas. — Tranquebar. 



V. Phaseolina. Lam. 64. — Del. t. 10. f. 4. Ovate, thin, 

 transversely striated, grey or pale fulvous, with small white trian- 

 gular spots and brown narrow rays (which sometimes become obso- 

 lete), the beaks somewhat violet ; posterior depression ovate. 1^-. 



V. Carneola. Lam. 65. — Del. t. 10. f. 5. Ovate, uniform 

 flesh color, with transverse and longitudinal finer striae and the 

 beaks violet : posterior depression lanceolate : inside whitish. 1-J. 



V. Florida. Lam. 66.— V. L^ta. Pali. 2. t. 21. /. 1 to 4. 

 V. Virginea. Philip, p. 46. Small, subtriangularly oblong 

 ovate, glossy, inequilateral, anteriorly longer, rounded at both ends, 

 finely striated transversely : most variable in colouring usually 

 marbled with brown and white, often rayed and reticulated, an- 

 terior depression short, posterior oblong : inside yellow. — Variety. 

 (Bi color. Lam. 68. An Poli. 2. t. 21. f. 3 ?) White, with minute 

 additional longitudinal striae, and the anterior slope on one side 

 brown, sometimes with brown rays ; lunule brown. — Variety. 

 (V. Catenifera. Lam. 70.) With four brown chain-like rays ; 

 spotted with orange internally. \\. — Mediterranean. 1 



V. Petalina. Lam. 67. — Beudantii. Payr. t. 1. f. 32. 

 Ovate oblong, rather sloping from the beaks on both sides, posteri- 

 orly short, anteriorly produced and attenuated, mottled flesh 

 colour with one or two white rays, the beaks and inside purple, 

 all but smooth, the fine tranverse strue only evident posteriorly ; 

 lunule lanceolate : of the teeth two are cleft in one valve, the 

 central one only in the other. — Mediterranean. 



1 To this species Deshayes appends V. Texturata. Lam. 43. 

 The localities, however, are so far apart that I do not venture to 

 unite them. V. Texturata. Lam. 43. — Ch. f. 443. Ovate, 

 antiquated, whitish, with a kind of network of reddish yellow 

 lines ; the transverse striae very fine : posterior depression ovate : 

 beaks rather prominent. \f. — Indian Ocean. 



